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🌍🤖 Most important: Anthropic closed a $65B round, surpassing OpenAI’s valuation and nearing $1T ahead of a potential IPO, signaling intensifying AI scale and capital concentration. TechCrunchheiseNYT
🇨🇭🔐 Switzerland (local): Tens of thousands of motorists’ sensitive data were exposed by Swiss parking-enforcement firms due to misconfigured databases, highlighting ongoing civic-tech security gaps. heise
🇪🇺⚖️ Europe: The EU fined Temu €200M under the Digital Services Act for inadequate risk assessment and protection, underscoring stricter oversight of fast-growing e-commerce platforms. heise
🇺🇸🚀 America: The FAA grounded further Starship V3 launches pending investigation after a booster engine issue, pausing SpaceX’s test cadence until the cause is clarified. heise
🎨📽️ Culture in tech: Tribeca will screen what organizers say is the first fully AI-generated feature film, budgeted at about $2,000 and set in a fictional Iran, spotlighting new creative workflows and rights debates. heise
🛰️✈️ Dual‑use: The uncrewed Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 aircraft broke the sound barrier in its third flight test, advancing supersonic tech with potential civil and defense applications. heise
⚖️📦 Policy: The EU’s proposed “Chips Act 2.0” will encourage public authorities to “buy European” processors, aiming to strengthen domestic semiconductor startups via procurement. heise
🇰🇷💽 Asia: Samsung began sampling the world’s first 12‑layer HBM4E to major customers, pushing bandwidth and stacking density for next‑gen AI accelerators and hyperscale data centers. Korea Herald
🇹🇼📈 Economics/Asia: Nvidia plans to invest about $150B per year in Taiwan and establish a new HQ there, reflecting the island’s central role in the AI hardware supply chain. heise
🧠🤖 AI: Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with parallel agents and “more honest” outputs, plus a timeline for its security‑focused Mythos model, as reported by multiple outlets. heise
🌱🌌 Sustainability: NASA’s night‑lights analysis maps where artificial light at night intensified or dimmed worldwide, informing urban planning, ecology, and energy‑efficiency strategies. NASA
🍽️🧪 Food tech: Swiss startup TUUS secured CHF 150k to advance a plant‑based hydrogel platform enabling controlled nutrient and active‑compound release for sports nutrition, pharma, and beyond. startupticker
🩺📱 Longevity & health: Google detailed a roadmap to expand and fix its new Health app, adding features and reliability updates after launch feedback to improve everyday health tracking. heise
💰📊 Investment & fundraising: Basel’s NUCLIDIUM extended its oversubscribed Series B by CHF 26M to CHF 105M to advance copper‑based radiotheranostics into broader Phase 1/2 studies and scale manufacturing. startupticker
🧑🔬✨ Remarkable individual: Hans Königsmann, SpaceX’s early German engineer, once corrected a single calculation that he says averted the company’s near‑certain bankruptcy—an anecdote underscoring the outsized impact of precise engineering. NZZ
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